The man who is accused of shooting and killing a Fort Myers police officer, Wisner Desmaret, is an undocumented immigrant from Haiti.

Wednesday, August 1st 2018, 5:46 pm EDT by Michael Raimondi

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Thursday, August 2nd 2018, 7:17 am EDT

The man who is accused of shooting and killing a Fort Myers police officer, Wisner Desmaret, is an undocumented immigrant from Haiti. Before he goes through the process of potentially being detained, he has to face charges from local authorities.

Before Desmaret can even go to an immigration hearing, he will first face any charges from local authorities from the death of Officer Adam Jobbers-Miller. That means it could take years for him to face potential deportation from the United States.

“They cannot remove them until its final, that’s another reason it takes years and years,” retired immigration judge Anthony Rogers said.

Desmaret was one of those detained by ICE. He was in their custody in 2008 and 2010 but was never deported.

“The fact that he was taken into ICE custody because of prior apparent criminal matter informs us only that immigration seems to believe he is potentially subject to me removed from the United States,” Rogers said.

So why wasn’t he sent back to Haiti? ICE officials wouldn’t say. But Rogers said at one point he could have been close to leaving.

“It is possible that if indeed the government believed he was illegally here and they placed him in proceedings like this earlier date when he was in custody over in Miami as reported, he could have been determined to be removable from the United States and ordered removed, that’s possible,” Rogers said.

It would take months or even years for this whole process to be completed. But Rogers said because Desmaret has already been detained before, they could have already decided he is being deported.

Just because ICE said they are ready to deport him that doesn’t mean he is being sent out of the country. He will have to serve a sentence before that. So if he outlives his sentence, he then could face deportation.